{"id":746006,"date":"2026-08-22T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746006\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:04:10","slug":"duck-fully-recovers-after-near-fatal-beak-injury-in-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746006\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck fully recovers after near-fatal beak injury in Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity&#8217;s original post about the duck&#8217;s injury attracted more than a million views in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Without treatment, the injury could have left the duck unable to feed itself or waterproof its feathers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, head of nursing Carla England said the duck had been fortunate to retain blood supply to the damaged section of its beak, which allowed surgeons to pin it back into place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not a common injury but we have seen it before,&#8221; she said in June. &#8220;You can&#8217;t always save a beak that&#8217;s so badly damaged. It depends entirely on the blood supply.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charity&#8217;s original post about the duck&#8217;s injury attracted more than a million views in June. Without treatment,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-746006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}